Diversity Policies ‘Don’t Help’ – And ‘Make White Men Feel Threatened’
Whether it’s Silicon Valley giants such as Facebook or relatively unknown firms such as Camden Property Trust, Fortune’s No. 1 “Best Workplace for Diversity” last year, businesses around the world are scrambling to show they know it’s not okay to let white men run everything. That effort can take many forms —from diversity trainings so devastatingly lampooned years ago in The Office to actually hiring and retaining minorities and...
U.S. Plan Will Fix Area Roads
West Lebanon — There was good news out of Washington this week for Upper Valley officials seeking funding for a number of transportation projects, ranging from a major safety overhaul along Route 12 in Charlestown to the replacement or repair of aging bridges over Vermont rivers in towns such as Strafford and Chelsea. After years of stymied efforts to address the nation’s aging and congested highways and transit systems, Congress...
Tech Jobs Flourishing Outside Silicon Valley
Technology has started to catch up to banking and consulting as one of the top industries for business school graduates, and it’s not just Silicon Valley schools producing tech-hungry MBAs. A handful of B-schools in unlikely regions graduated more of their students into technology jobs in 2014 than any other industry, according to data the schools provided to Bloomberg for its 2015 business school rankings. A few schools in Utah,...
Consumer Confidential: Anthem’s Good Intentions Get Lost in Aggressive Telemarketing
Joseph Goldstein received a call the other day at his Los Angeles home from someone claiming to represent his insurer, Anthem Blue Cross. The caller said he knew that one of Goldstein’s family members had been seriously injured in a fall and wanted to make sure that Goldstein knew about Anthem’s wellness and home-care programs. “They said I had to sign up right away or I’d lose these benefits,” Goldstein recalled. “It was a very hard...
Money Talk: Business Credit Cards Lack Protections
Question: I have a business credit card that offers cash rebates. It has an interest rate of 15.24 percent on purchases and 25.24 percent on cash advances. I carry balances in each category. Each month the issuer posts my entire payment to my lower-interest purchases balance and nothing to my cash advance balance. I telephoned to complain but I was told that they will not post any payments to my cash advance balance until my purchases...
